# Fractures at Sargent Electric Company
> OSHA SIR `20171211634` · 12/7/2017 · ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Switchboards, switches, fuses
## Employer
- **Name:** Sargent Electric Company
- **Location:** 2901 East Lake Road, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16531
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were removing a piece of switchgear weighing more than 1,000 pounds when it fell forward, striking and pinning an employee between it and a wall. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured clavicle, fractured scapula, fractured vertebra, and fractured ribs.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*